# Rodney Reid

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{{Short description|New Zealand sportsman (1939–2022)}}
{{for|the American death row inmate|Rodney Reed}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}}
{{Use New Zealand English|date=July 2013}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Rodney Reid
| image = Rodney Reid 1959.jpg
| caption = Reid in 1959
| fullname = Rodney Ernest Reid
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| position = [Inside-forward](/source/Inside-forward)
| birth_date = {{birth date|1939|07|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = [Apia](/source/Apia), [Territory of Western Samoa](/source/Territory_of_Western_Samoa)
| death_date = {{death date and age|2022|5|12|1939|07|30|df=y}}
| death_place = [Blenheim, New Zealand](/source/Blenheim%2C_New_Zealand)
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| clubs1 = [Miramar Rangers](/source/Miramar_Rangers)
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| clubs2 = [Seatoun](/source/Seatoun_(soccer))
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| nationalyears1 = 1958
| nationalcaps1 = 2
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| nationalteam1 = [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand_men's_national_football_team)
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'''Rodney Ernest Reid''' (30 July 1939 – 12 May 2022) was a New Zealand [association football](/source/association_football) player who represented [New Zealand](/source/New_Zealand_men's_national_football_team) at international level<ref name=aapp>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZRepSoccer/id1708.htm|title=A-International Appearances – Overall|publisher=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website|accessdate=9 November 2009}}</ref> and played [first-class cricket](/source/first-class_cricket) for [Wellington](/source/Wellington_cricket_team).<ref name=cinfo>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/rodney-reid-38303|title=Rodney Reid|publisher=ESPNcricinfo|access-date=9 November 2009}}</ref>

Born in [Apia](/source/Apia) in Western [Samoa](/source/Samoa), Reid played 13 first-class matches for Wellington from 1958–59 to 1960–61, taking 33 wickets at 29.72 with his right-arm medium pace and scoring 205 runs at 12.81.<ref name=cinfo /> He was considered one of the most promising new players of the 1958–59 [Plunket Shield](/source/Plunket_Shield) season, the Christchurch ''[Press](/source/The_Press)'' noting: "His medium-paced bowling was remarkably steady, he averaged 25 with the bat, and he finished the series with a [hat-trick](/source/Hat-trick_(cricket)) against [Otago](/source/Otago_cricket_team)."<ref>{{cite journal |title=Encouraging Performances in Plunket Shield Games |journal=Press |date=22 January 1959 |page=5 |url=https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19590122.2.20.4}}</ref> He took his best figures of 6 for 57 in the second innings when Wellington defeated [Auckland](/source/Auckland_cricket_team) by an innings in January 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=Auckland v Wellington 1959-60 |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/23/23910.html |publisher=CricketArchive |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref>

Reid played two official A-international matches for the [New Zealand national football team](/source/New_Zealand_men's_national_football_team) in 1958.<ref name=aapp /> The first was a 2–3 loss against trans-Tasman neighbours [Australia](/source/Australia_men's_national_soccer_team) on 16 August 1958 and the second was a 5–1 win over [New Caledonia](/source/New_Caledonia_national_football_team) on 7 September.<ref name=alup>{{cite web|url=http://www.ultimatenzsoccer.com/NZRepSoccer/id1561.htm|title=A-International Lineups 1904-1959|publisher=The Ultimate New Zealand Soccer Website|accessdate=9 November 2009}}</ref>

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Category:1939 births
Category:2022 deaths
Category:New Zealand men's association footballers
Category:New Zealand men's international footballers
Category:New Zealand cricketers
Category:Wellington cricketers
Category:Samoan cricketers
Category:Sportspeople from Apia
Category:Samoan emigrants to New Zealand
Category:Men's association football inside forwards
Category:20th-century New Zealand sportsmen

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